Lights Scare Off Gun-toting Robber

November 26, 1985

KISSIMMEE — Flashing lights scared off a would-be robber early Sunday after he entered a convenience store and demanded the clerk give him the night's receipts.

Janet Hammerle told police she was preparing the night's cash drop at 3:30 a.m. Sunday when a man came into the Tenneco store, 3009 W. Vine St., said Kissimmee Lt. John Sutphin. The man pointed a handgun at her and said to give him the cash, Sutphin said.

Hammerle told police a light flashed from the street, and ''he ran out the front door without the money. It must have scared him,'' Sutphin said.